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Intel Provides Temporary e1000e Fix

Phoronix: Intel Provides Temporary e1000e Fix

In the Linux 2.6.27 kernel code was a rather serious regression where a faulty driver is killing Intel network hardware. Specifically the e1000 and e1000e network adapters were getting their EEPROM corrupted by the driver, which renders the network interface permanently inoperable unless that non-volatile memory can be restored...

good idea by the kernel developers!
they should start to randomly insert drivers that brick you hardware so the companies suddenly raise the funds to fix drivers... maybe that will help with the opensource ati driver development

Honestly, I don't understand why this bug made it past the very early stages of the release cycle. It seems like a bug of this severity should trigger a rollback to earlier code as soon as it is discovered. Something like this should never make it into a Linux kernel RC.

Honestly, I don't understand why this bug made it past the very early stages of the release cycle. It seems like a bug of this severity should trigger a rollback to earlier code as soon as it is discovered. Something like this should never make it into a Linux kernel RC.

well.. its very hard to reproduce, it simply did not get hit that early in the cycle.

SO now that this bug came to light and is being investigated...that's a good thing, but who should be using RC kernels anyway?

If nobody used RC kernels there would be a massive increase in breakage. Developers depend on user feedback to isolate and fix bugs as they can't have every combination of software and hardware installed on systems available at their finger tips.